The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 31J. Nichols, 1817 - Biography |
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... writer , He was born at Powick , in Worcestershire , 1708. He was the son of Mr. John Wall , an opulent tradesman of the city of Worcester , who served the office of mayor in 1703 . received the early part of his education at a grammar ...
... writer , He was born at Powick , in Worcestershire , 1708. He was the son of Mr. John Wall , an opulent tradesman of the city of Worcester , who served the office of mayor in 1703 . received the early part of his education at a grammar ...
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... writer of his time on the baptist side . Mr. Wall published his " History of Infant Baptism " in 1707 ; and Dr. Gale ... writers who have supported the practice of infant - baptism ; and his antagonists Gale , Whiston , and the baptist ...
... writer of his time on the baptist side . Mr. Wall published his " History of Infant Baptism " in 1707 ; and Dr. Gale ... writers who have supported the practice of infant - baptism ; and his antagonists Gale , Whiston , and the baptist ...
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... writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that maintained him . In parliament , Burnet says , Waller " was the delight of ...
... writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that maintained him . In parliament , Burnet says , Waller " was the delight of ...
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... writing verses ( for he was near thirty years of age when he first engaged himself in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprized the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been ...
... writing verses ( for he was near thirty years of age when he first engaged himself in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprized the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been ...
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... writer of his Life relates that he was already among them , when , hearing a noise in the street , and inquiring the cause , they found a son of Ben Jonson under an arrest , This was Morley , whom Waller set free at the expence of 100l ...
... writer of his Life relates that he was already among them , when , hearing a noise in the street , and inquiring the cause , they found a son of Ben Jonson under an arrest , This was Morley , whom Waller set free at the expence of 100l ...
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Page 436 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Page 69 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
Page 119 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 440 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
Page 22 - ... enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; — viz., a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented with...
Page 266 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,
Page 194 - ... the learned author of the Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope; a book which teaches how the brow of criticism may be smoothed, and how she may be enabled, with all her severity, to attract and to delight.
Page 297 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver iis out of thine hand, O king.
Page 36 - Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 396 - Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to...